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movie review - Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-seven years and one million words

Toronto, 2004.12.27

When I was leaving the cinema at the end of the third volume of the Lord of the Rings movie, I realized that I'd just witnessed the high point of my movie-going career, and that it would be mostly downhill from there.

I had no idea how quickly and how far that downward ride would go, until the 1/4 mark of Anchorman. This movie is just plain appalling. Unfunny, painfully lowbrow, and pointless.

Not recommended.

rand()m quote

I'd see the publicity guy come on the set and I'd go hide in the rafters. The crew would be like, ‘I haven't seen him.' And then they'd leave and I'd go back to work. Because that's what's fun: the doing, not the talking.

—Kurt Russell